text your US postal address
to (520) 200-2223 and get a text back with your

STATE & FEDERAL
legislative rep phone numbers.

With the
text of the health care bill having been released and the cuts to Medicaid
going even deeper than the House version, we have our work cut out for
us. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jun/22/senate-health-care-bill-whats-it What we want now is to delay this vote
until after theJuly 4threcess.
This will force representatives to have to meet with their constituents
and hear, in person, how these cuts will affect them. McConnell wants it
done before then; we don’t. SO: If
your senator is a Democrat, call and say: “you guys did a great job
holding the Senate floor to protest Trumpcare this week. Now that the
Senate Trumpcare bill is released, Democrats need to block ALL routine
Senate business, ensure the public is able to debate this bill, and force
Republicans to confront their constituents during the Fourth of July
recess." If your senator
is a Republican, especially in one of the critical ten swing states,
but regardless, call them and say: “this healthcare bill is cruel and
vicious. I do NOT want you to support it. These cuts to Medicaid are
unacceptable, not to mention the defunding of Planned Parenthood and the
tax cuts for rich people. Stop trying to ram this through and take the
time to make it a GOOD bill. Millions of lives depend on it."

Indivisible
is imploring us to submit amendments to the disastrous healthcare bill
released finally by the Senate Republicans. Our amendments will go to
Chuck Schumer and Senate staffers for use in the “vote-a-rama,” during
which ANY Senator can submit as many amendments as he or she wants. Every
amendment takes time to be introduced and voted on, so the thousands
Indivisible hopes to collect will greatly slow down the process.
Indivisible reminds us that “McConnell and Senate Republicans can still
blow up Senate rules and cut off the amendment process. But to do that
they’ll have to go on the record literally silencing the victims of
TrumpCare in their own states, which they really don’t want to visibly
do.” Let’s give Democrats as much ammunition as possible to fight
TrumpCare! Check it out here: https://www.ouramendments.org/

Remember
last week that the Senate voted, 98-2, to impose new sanctions on Russia
for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and to block Trump from
lifting those sanctions in the future? Well, the matter is now in the
House, and the Trump White House is lobbying GOP members to weaken the
bill.

The
Philando Castile case and the shooting of Charleena Lyles are horrific
reminders that police reform is needed in the United States. One of the
ways this can be started is through consent decrees between police
departments and the Department of Justice. Back in April, however,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of the Justice
Department's police reform activities and consent decrees. Let's give
Sessions a call and tell him that we support consent decrees and expect
him to stop delaying the ones which should already be in place. 5calls has
more information, a call script, and phone number: https://5calls.org/issue/recE23p05mKPjWrzCWe can also read more about the consent
decrees and reform efforts which are taking place in select cities within
the U.S.: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/jeff-sessions-consent-decree-roundup/index.html

5calls.orgis working on tracking where each
Senator stands on the AHCA. Currently, there are 69 Senators whose
positions are unknown. Let's give our Senators a call, then add their
current position to the tally: https://5calls.org/

State-level actions

From
one of our own: Were you part of
the amazing texting crew for Ossoff or Parnell? Do you want to be in on
similar text out the vote campaigns in the future? Come one, come all –
it's time to get on the list for future campaigns! Especially brand new
people who might not already be on one of the email lists! Note: The way it works is that we use a
program like Relay or Hustle, on your phone or on your computer, that
masks your phone number and automatically connects you
with voters you can text. I have texted for four campaigns now (Ossoff,
Parnell, Thompson, Quist), and I get much better conversations with voters
than through phone banking. Sign
up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIcMYKBRPxYJrip-kUfonwN0j8jTm4WH5cDiqO8x4oNupnlw/viewform

While Trump
attacks our Constitution from the White House, extremist conservatives and
corporate interests led by Jim DeMint, the Koch brothers and ALEC are
trying to change it for good. They're trying to get 34 states to pass
resolutions to launch a new constitutional convention, and they're quietly
making progress. (https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-conservatives-could-rewrite-the-constitution) But we've successfully rolled back
their progress in New Mexico, Maryland and Nevada, and we can put a stop
to their assault on our fundamental values. Let's check out the status of
these calls in our states, and then call our legislators and tell them to
oppose new efforts to call for a convention or work to rescind standing
convention calls.

Other Actions

For those of us who are
techie and want to use our skills to help the #resistance, RISE Stronger
needs us: In addition to constant innovation and
improvement of our technical tools such as the People's Calendar and
United States of Resistance, RISE Stronger has recently revamped our
website with many new features that require upgrading our technical
infrastructure. We are in constant need of experienced programmers and web
developers to help us improve our website and online tools. Specifically,
we need people with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, UX & development
experience. See more here: https://risestronger.org/volunteer/10

The
Southern Poverty Law Center has been "fighting hate and bigotry
and ... seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our
society" since 1971. If we want to understand what we're up against,
we'll want to take a look at their "Hatewatch" blog, which
regularly "monitors and exposes the activities of the American
radical right." https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch.
We should also report any hate incident we witness or experience to them,
here, because they will help fight it: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate.

From one of our own: Let's
write to "Dear Abby" - not to ask for advice, but to give
some! [Wednesday was] National ASK
Day - encouraging parents to simply ask if there are unsecured guns in
places where their kids spend time. [Wednesday], the "Dear Abby"
column gave this horribly tone-deaf advice, telling a parent to mind her
own business to avoid being "off-putting." http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/2017/6/21/1/mom-searches-for-right-approach-to?utm_source=dearabby-twitter&utm_medium=socialmarketing&utm_campaign=social Please ask "Dear Abby" to
retract this deadly advice and use the platform to give life-saving advice
to parents. Always ask if there are guns in the homes where children spend
time, and how the guns are stored. There are too many grieving parents in
this country who wish they could go back and do that. Address: Dear Abby, P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,
CA 90069

From
Postcards from Kate: ProPublica's Marshall Allen has been
covering healthcare for 10 years. He investigates and reports, and we need
more like him. In a piece published yesterday, he uncovers, and carefully
explains, how one drugmaker combined two generic drugs to make millions in
profits. It's a mind-bogglingly cynical scheme, and must have taken many
hours to unravel. Let's thank him for doing this work bysharing this article (in the
hopes that a legislator or two happens to notice), and
by sending him an encouraging note.
Let’s write him here:
Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 155 Avenue of the Americas. 13th Floor.
New York, N.Y. 10013

“We can live in a world where the police
don't kill peopleby
limiting policeinterventions,
improving communityinteractions,
and ensuringaccountability.” Let’s join Campaign Zero and see how we
can help make this happen: https://www.joincampaignzero.org

Petitions

Despite all the evidence,
Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez was "found not guilty of second-degree
manslaughterFriday" in the
shooting death of Philando Castile during a traffic stop. Castile's
girlfriend and her 4-yr-old daughter were also in the car. While the city
of St. Anthony is removing Yanez from the police force, they are not
punishing him in any other way and will in fact offer him "a
voluntary separation agreement to help him transition to another
career."http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/16/us/philando-castile-trial-verdict/index.html. Yanez benefiting from this situation
isn't fair, and further undermines the community's trust of the local
police force. The following petition urges the mayor of St. Anthony to
"fire Yanez without severance pay" instead. Sign and then share
the petition here: https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-severance-jeronimo-yanez

“The U.S. Senate votes
next week on the just-announced, incredibly damaging "Better Care Reconciliation
Act." This bill would plunge tens of millions of moms, children, and
families into crisis, end Medicaid as we know it, and devastate our
economy.”Let’s
join MomsRising in telling Republicans to stop attacking our
families: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/stop_attacking_families/

Marches/events to attend/organize

Gay
Pride Parades are being held in many major cities—NYC, San Francisco,
Chicago—this weekend, and many marchers, like those in DC earlier this
month, are putting resistance to Trump’s agenda front and center:http://www.npr.org/2017/06/11/532490914/d-c-equality-march-makes-pride-political
Whether we are marching—or only watching—we should bring our signs and
make it clear that LGBT folks are no better served by this administration
than women, immigrants, non-white people, or those who need affordable
healthcare. Here’s a nationwide schedule:http://www.gaypridecalendar.com

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..